I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.

Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

Know this: you can start over, each morning.

You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.

I kinda always wanted to be an ant.

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

Life is full of wonder.

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained.

I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle.

I love to be surprised or challenged or told that I know less than I thought that I knew. I know it's an old saw, but the older I get the less I know I know.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.